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Karen Eliot
Associate Professor, Department of Dance
Areas of Expertise
• Dance History of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
• Ballet and modern dance
KAREN ELIOT (Professor) is a former dancer with the
Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Her book Dancing Lives: Five Female
Dancers from the Ballet d’Action to Merce Cunningham (University
of Illinois Press, 2007) investigates the contribution of the performer
to the larger history of western theatrical dance. Her current research
is on the intersection of the Second World War and the growth and development
of ballet in Britain, and has been supported by an Arts and Humanities
Seed Grant (2004), several College of the Arts Research Grants, and a
Coca Cola Critical Difference for Women Grant (2007-08). She served as
Recording Secretary for the Society of Dance History Scholars from 2001-2007
and is also a member of DCA, CORD, and the Society for Dance Research
(UK). She has presented her work at international conferences including
the International Early Dance Conference in Ghent, Belgium (2000), and
the Sound Moves Conference at Roehampton University in London, England
(2005). She has directed several student performances of choreography
by Merce Cunningham. In 2006 she directed three solos from “Changing
Steps” for an M.F.A. candidate in the Department of Dance, and
in 2004 and 2005 she directed both OSU students and students from the
University of Minnesota in Merce Cunningham’s “Inlets 2.” Her
articles and reviews appear in: Dance Chronicle; Eighteenth-Century
Women: Studies in their Lives, Works and Culture; The American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Reviews Online; Journal
of Women’s History; and Dance Research Journal.
Education
• PhD, Literature, University of Georgia
• BA, English & Dance, Cornell University, New York
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